How are you guys dealing with Thanksgiving? I just planned my meal and plugged it all into WW. I was over my entire days points and that is just for dinner itself! Ahhhhhh!

I am going to make Chickpea cutlets, mashed potatoes, green bean and mushroom casserole, mushroom gravy, and pumpkin cheesecake with pecan crunch topping. All Isa's recipes but I added some extras to my mashed potatoes like garlic powder and earth balance. I have 2 servings of the chickpea cutlets and 2 servings of gravy accounted for, but everything else is just 1 serving. I might need to skip the pumpkin cheesecake :o(

Sounds delicious! Could you lighten up the recipes any or are they already the low fat version? You could always prioritize; if the cheesecake is more important to you, steamed green beans would be less points than a casserole most likely, or skip the second serving of chickpea cutlets.

My solution is to skip town on Thanksgiving and go to Disneyland. I'm bringing snacks (fruit and single servings of nuts), walking a bunch of course and limiting myself to half the bread bowl when I get vegan gumbo.

I'm wondering if I can bake the chickpea cutlets instead of frying them in oil? I'm sure that would help a lot. My issue is that this meal is feeding my husband too, and I can't skimp on his Thanksgiving meal. So I was trying to find semi healthy recipes that he wouldn't mind eating too. I usually make stuffing but decided that since the chickpea cutlets have sage and thyme in them they can sub for my stuffing flavor craving.

Just gonna eat a super light breakfast and workout out a ton that week!

I'm wondering if I can bake the chickpea cutlets instead of frying them in oil? I'm sure that would help a lot. My issue is that this meal is feeding my husband too, and I can't skimp on his Thanksgiving meal. So I was trying to find semi healthy recipes that he wouldn't mind eating too. I usually make stuffing but decided that since the chickpea cutlets have sage and thyme in them they can sub for my stuffing flavor craving.

Just gonna eat a super light breakfast and workout out a ton that week!

I've baked the cutlets loads of time and they always turn out really well. I actually prefer them that way.

_________________I like my bagels like I like my men - big and covered with earth balance & nooch. - Bunniee

I'm wondering if I can bake the chickpea cutlets instead of frying them in oil? I'm sure that would help a lot. My issue is that this meal is feeding my husband too, and I can't skimp on his Thanksgiving meal. So I was trying to find semi healthy recipes that he wouldn't mind eating too. I usually make stuffing but decided that since the chickpea cutlets have sage and thyme in them they can sub for my stuffing flavor craving.

Just gonna eat a super light breakfast and workout out a ton that week!

I've baked the cutlets loads of time and they always turn out really well. I actually prefer them that way.

I am on fire lately. I have a trip coming up with a friend and she's really in shape and into hiking. I don't want to be panting uncontrollably 30 yards behind her, so I've been really motivated lately. I went out do dinner at Three Brothers, went crazy eating everything, and then felt totally guilty about it and didn't touch the leftovers at all. I made my roommates eat the super amazing pizza even though I really wanted it. And I've been going to the gym almost every day before work either doing the elliptical or treadmill. I lost 3 lbs two weeks ago and 5.4 lbs last week! Now I'm only 1 itty bitty pound away from 40 and I already promised my leader I'd get there next Sunday, so that's helping to keep me on track too!

appifanie wrote:

Waaaa I totally miss it but we don't have the fundage to spare right now - I'm trying to look at old points (I recorded a lot of them in my food journal) but it doesn't really work the same.

Super hungry again today! I'm finding it's really the day AFTER an intense workout that I am ravenous. The day of I'm not that hungry at all.

What are you eating before & after your workout? I would think something high in protein and fiber would help fill you up. Try eating a handful of almonds or walnuts before your workout. Drink lots of water, and then after have a protein shake or smoothie. Or a tofu scramble with whole wheat toast!

But that is strange, I am the complete opposite! I have no appetite after I workout and my off days all I want to do is eat.

Oh hey, I have another question: do you guys use your weekly points? I used about half of them today. And I kind of thought that was okay, but then I was poking around on the WW forums out of boredom, and a bunch of folks were talking about how the weekly points were a bad idea and you won't lose weight if you use them, blah blah blah.

_________________I like my bagels like I like my men - big and covered with earth balance & nooch. - Bunniee

Since I am just starting out there have been a few days where I went over my daily points and pulled from my weekly. But I don't try to use them or count on the fact that they are there. I also don't plan on trading in my activity points either. The way I see it, if you eat your activity points then you just cancelled out your exercising and you won't lose weight. I could be wrong, but that is just my thinking. The weekly points seem like they are there to catch you. It's realistic that some days you will eat more than others, or you will have a meal out or a celebration meal and so you can pull from the weekly points if you need to. But on a normal basis it's probably not a good idea to even think about them being there to use.

But, like I said I am new to this, so please someone tell me if I am totally missing the mark.

Good to know! Honestly I think those WW forums are not a healthy place to hang around...lots of folks on there talking about how they are scared to eat fruit and what-not. I'd be lost without my fruit!

I went out for drinks tonight and had 1 drink over the span of quite a few hours and still managed to have a good time. There was lots of yummy smelling food on the table, but I wasn't really hungry and just thought "hey, I don't really want that."

_________________I like my bagels like I like my men - big and covered with earth balance & nooch. - Bunniee